In 1962, Ms. Allene Jones became one of the first three Black undergraduates – all of whom were women – admitted to TCU. She graduated from the Harris College of Nursing in May 1963. Ms. Jones, who passed away in 2015, remarked that at the time she helped to integrate the TCU undergraduate campus, she didn’t think of herself as making history stating: “I just wanted to go to school. I was too young and naïve to understand the significance of what I was doing.” Upon receiving her Master’s degree in Psychiatric Nursing from UCLA, Ms. Jones returned to Harris College in 1968 to become the first Black professor at TCU, where she taught clinical and psychiatric nursing. Ms. Jones retired in 1998 and was granted emeritus faculty status.

Portraits of the three trailblazers – Ms. Jones, Ms. Doris Ann McBride, and Ms. Patsy Brown – can be viewed in the lobby of TCU’s administration building The Harrison.